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Room at the top. Episode 1 / produced by Paul Frift ; directed by Aisling Walsh ; Great Meadow Productions for BBC.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- BBC Literary Adaptations in Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--England--Drama.
- Working class.
- Adultery--England--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Ambition--Drama.
- Ambition.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--England--Drama.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Genre:
- Television adaptations.
- Fiction television programs.
- Television mini-series.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (102 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2012.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- Based on John Braine's classic novel about a young man on the make in 194's Yorkshire. Joe Lampton moves to the wealthy town of Warley. It's not long before he has attracted the attentions of Susan Brown, a very pretty girl with a rich and successful father. But Joe is already in love with another woman. Older than him and with her looks beginning to fade, Alice Aisgill is married already. When Susan and others discover his affair, Joe must choose between the true love he feels for Alice and the success and stability offered by a union with Susan. Leaving working class Dufton behind him, Joe Lampton arrives in the affluent mill town of Warley with two things on his mind ... money and sex. He takes lodgings at 'The Top', where the rich folk live, and he starts mixing with a better class of female at the local amateur dramatic society. He is soon dating Susan Brown, the daughter of the richest man in Warley. But his plan to marry into the wealthy middle classes is threatened by his feelings for Alice Aisgill, a woman who is not only ten years older than him, but also married.
- Participant:
- Matthew McNulty, Maxine Peake, Jenna Louise Coleman, Tom Brooke, Theo James, Julia Ford, Kevin Doyle, Peter Wight, Kevin R. McNally.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 27, 2020).
- Won 2013 BAFTA Awards, Best Mini-Series
- Nominated 2013 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Best Actress
- Won 2013 Royal Television Society, UK, Best Drama Serial
- Nominated 2013 Writers' Guild of Great Britain, Best Television Short-Form Drama
- Contains:
- Television adaptation of: Braine, John. Room at the top. Selections.
- OCLC:
- 1140358815
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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